2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Art Therapy Major in the Southwest Region
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Art Therapy Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2021-2022, 770 people earned their degree in art therapy, making the major the 465th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 45 art therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 42 art therapy graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Art Therapy Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in art therapy. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their art therapy program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Art Therapy Major in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Art Therapy Major in the Southwest Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Art Therapy in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southwestern College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Art Therapy Major in the Southwest Region list. SWC Santa Fe is a private not-for-profit institution located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The school has a small population, and it awarded 39 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
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Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Art Therapy Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Ottawa University - Phoenix landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Phoenix, Arizona, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 3 degrees to qualified masters’s art therapy students in 2021-2022.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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References
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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